Every garden centre manager knows the customer. They arrive carrying a plant tag. Sometimes a phone. Frequently an opinion. “This is Zone 5.” Pause....
September is a dangerous month for a garden-centre buyer. Not because anything particularly dramatic happens. Because everything that happened is still easy to remember....
There is a hydrangea on a street somewhere that has probably sold more hydrangeas than most advertisements ever will. Nobody planned it. There was...
Gardens have an audience. That changes things. A refrigerator disappears into a kitchen. A mattress disappears into a bedroom. A garden, especially a front...
There is a peculiar thing about plant names. Some roll off the tongue. Others require a running start. A customer picks up a tag....